Les Enfants Terribles

Cocteau, Jean

Rosamond Lehmann's translation, followed by the author's sixty illustrations, first published separately in 1934, and which retell the illustrated version of the story of the dark power-play between two siblings that later inspired an opera, a ballet and a film.
"It has the rare merit of reading as though it were an English original." Times Literary Supplement.

Publisher: The Folio Society. First edition thus 1976
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Pictorial cloth. Fine as issued without dustwrapper and in slipcase with a couple of marks.


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